Banovići coal mine explained

Banovići Coal Mine
Pushpin Map:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Place:Omazići
State/Province:Tuzla Canton
Country:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Products:Lignite

The Banovići Coal Mine is a brown coal mine located in Banovići, in the Tuzla Canton. The mine consists of three surface mines: Čubrić, Turija and Grivice and the underground Omazići mine [1] and has coal reserves amounting to 208 million tonnes of lignite, which makes it one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world. The mine, which is owned and operated by RMU Banovići,[2] has an annual production capacity of 1.27 million tonnes of coal.[3] The coal mine used in 2014 still steam locomotives on its railway.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.mindat.org/feature-3204519.html Omazići, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  2. Book: Kimball . Suzette M. . Sally . Jewell . . Washington . . 2013 . 978-1-4113-3671-1 .
  3. Web site: Mineral deposits of Bosnia and Herzegovina . 2012 . eihp.hr . 2013-07-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301192454/http://www.eihp.hr/bh-study/files/final_e/m8_fr.pdf . 2014-03-01 .